diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5e80278..2be090f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ numpy==1.11.0
 pickleshare==0.7.2
 Pillow==2.3.0
 pyzmq==15.2.0
-requests==2.2.1
+requests==2.20.0
 scipy==0.13.3
 Theano==0.9.0.dev0
 urllib3==1.7.1